#consuming media

[airlocksandaviaries]

All of this "do you have a hobby outside of consuming media" "who are you when you're not consuming media" "all you do is consume media" shit is making me lose my precious faith in humanity.

Like REALLY?? CONSUMING MEDIA??? Is that what we're calling watching shows and reading books and looking at art and listening to podcasts???? consuming media??? CONSUMING MEDIA??? That's all it is to you???? It's almost as bad as using the term 'content creator' instead of ARTIST.

You've taken an essential, beautiful, soul-healing part of the human experience and had the AUDACITY to not only strip it of its life and form and substance, but also attach SHAME and GUILT to it as well???? Please stop my heart can't take this.

I mean, of course it's important to have physical hobbies and creative outlets as well as relaxing ones. This is a very good and healthy thing! But how about we promote how much fun our creative and physical hobbies are instead of SHAMING PEOPLE for the crimes of "watching too many videos" or 'reading too many stories."

Yes, even online videos and stories. Be it fanfic or novel, cult classic film or comedy YouTuber, online digital art or Mary Cassatt, art is fucking art. That's that. And we shouldn't be shaming people for experiencing it. And for the love of humanity, we definitely shouldn't be taking a something as magical as experiencing art and calling it something as soulless as fucking. consuming media.

[forgottenbones]

We Don't Talk About Dan Schneider

[blackplaaague]

My fatal flaw is that, despite the tiktokification of analogue and digital indie horror, and the fact that everyone treats media as something to mindlessly consume, I genuinely enjoy stuff like Lacey's Games, Chezzkids Archive, FNaF VHS, WTD, TWOMP, and The Walten Files.

I can tell a lot of time went into making them, and the creators are very proud of all the effort that went into producing something they thought was spooky and fun, even if a bunch of ipad kids and hobbyless trolls spam every comment section as tiktok slowly consumes any of the series' remaining dignity.

I like this stuff, though. They remind me of being 11 years old, crouched over the family computer, with the screen slightly tilted so my parents can't see I'm reading Creepypastas, wholeheartedly believing in stuff like The Backrooms and Jeff the Killer and the Russian Sleep experiment.

Spooky internet stuff is escapism for me, so I don't care if it's not "dignified horror" because dignified horror isn't even a thing. You just make whatever you think is scary and you show it to people.

I don't think analogue/digital stuff made by, like, a team of 3 people needs to be super sophisticated and the pinnacle of all art, I just like the nostalgia of finding something made by some dude on the internet and watching it till midnight. I think we should be allowed to enjoy stuff that makes us happy, even if it's cringe or weird or has bad sound mixing and plot holes and stuff.

People have been making goofy, creepy stuff since the dawn of the internet, and it doesn't have to mean anything. And if it means something to someone? Respect that.

I hate all the stuff big companies are pumping out mindlessly, so I may as well enjoy something that doesn't make sense until you've seen six hours or weird blurry lore videos.

[gillian-anderson-in-the-tardis]

at this point I’m just living life one piece of media to the next

[ponderous-tomes]

I have just finished [media]. my personality will be [media] for a week and then I will never mention it again.

[phoenix-in-the-water]

The urges to just throw myself completely into analysis of Good Omens is strong.

The urge to project on the characters because I want to see myself in a piece of media I enjoy is also very strong.

In conclusion, I am not functioning in a way I feel should ever be perceived by people I know (I'm looking at the two people who can perceive me outside of tumblr). But also if I don't start talking endlessly about it I think I will explode.

[cijheil]

ur honor is it gay 2 parallel the prologue wit ur sworn enemy ?

[mikoriin]

man....sometimes i wish i could quit my job and go back to freelancing but i literally cannot make enough off of freelancing to make ends meet. i pay rent, buy my own groceries, and pay my bills. plus my medicine. like i do Not get commissions and stuff when i charge what i actually think my art is worth...so im stuck working at my very taxing job that exhausts me to the point of not being able to partake in my passions because i am just so fucking. tired.

[amateuraspect]

all I do is consume, and it consumes me

[lesbianautisticravenclaw]

(Coming from someone who has done this in the past)

If you haven’t seen or read a tv show, movie, or book don’t talk shit about it. If you’re not interested just say you’re not interested. It makes people who may actually enjoy it not want to watch/read it.

[bubblehuman]

how do i explain that my very favorite trope is character a is injured/weak/vulnerable and are at the mercy of character b who they think hates them and is going to kill/hurt them except that character b isn’t going to do that and instead takes care of them and makes sure they don’t get hurt anymore. and also how am i supposed to find these stories.

[worcestersaucesuace]

I wish I could get into something quite as deeply as people who write fanfics do. I just have no idea how to get into something for all that long. Instead, I just consume twenty pieces of media and then one looks interesting and I go “YOOOOO THIS IS AWESOME” and then suddenly it’s over and all my strong feelings about it just kind of… dull. It’s very annoying, really.

[saltonthebreeze]

I feel like too many movies/books take themselves too seriously, and the ones that don't go too far in the opposite direction *cough cough* Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicates *cough cough*

And UNFORTUNATELY, my tastes are so über specific that very little seems to appeal to me (or I've just been judged for enjoying things so many times before that I feel weird trying to consume new media, hard to tell), OR I feel like I'm too late to the party to watch something (why am I gate keeping myself? I don't know) OR someone wanted to introduce me to something and I feel like I shouldn't watch it on my own, like it's so sacred pact that they will rewatch it so I can experience it without any distractions. So now I sit alone in the dark, bored. It's too late to read, too early to sleep, and I'm done with video games for the night.

P.S. Tumblr, please stop italicizing everything in a paragraph because one word is italicized. It's really annoying to edit every time I decide to add a thought or fix my grammar.

[monotcchi]

dragon roast dreamin' 🍖💨✨

[beverage-cowboy]

I think as soon as you start saying that any movie or media or type of media has no value, you’ve already dug yourself into a terrible hole. Yes even the marvel movies and the trolls movies and kids crafts and “stupid” stuff that probably was just designed to sell more merchandise

[kristina100000]

i randomly bring this up to people once in 2 years just to remind them love is universal